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On 16/11/2012, at 06:52 , Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
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On Thu, 15. Nov 2012 at 12:52:03 -0800, haubourg wrote:
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<pre wrap="">BTW ECW support was meanwhile dropped in osgeo4w (after the GDAL update to
1.9.2) and also will lack in the next package. Neither Frank nor I were
able to mobilize enough energy to jump though all the hoops they've put in
front of their SDK download. IIRC also the licensing is somewhat strange
to as it allows client, but forbids server use and the user has to
acknowledge it - so we would even have to add own hoops...
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Ah.
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Yes, bummer indeed. Loosing support for those formats will, I think,
be serious hurdle in the further adoption of QGIS. Even though we
don't like the licensing, ecw and MrSid have become defacto
standards, with no replacement (until jpeg2000 stabilizes). <br>
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Not meaning any criticism (it's not a particularly nice licence and I understand), just looking for a bit more clarity.
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My feelings exactly. I certainly appreciate all the effort put in by
Jurgen, Frank and others to get the gdal-ecw library into OSGeo4W in
the past. If there's no way in 2.0 to allow users to download the
ECW-SDK, agreeing to the license, then add some dll's as was in the
past to add support for those formats, then it should be stated up
front - no ecw.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Micha<br>
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-ramon.
(Wondering if should I be signing up to one of the OSGeo lists and asking this there?)
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